Chamisa at Chatham House. Diana Jeater is a professor of African History #Chamisa mapped out the five pillars of his programme: g...
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Chamisa at Chatham House. Diana Jeater is a professor of African History |
#Chamisa mapped out the five pillars of his programme: governance (devolve, decentralise, decorrupt); economy (depoliticise,); social rights (women, children, disabled, weak); infrastructure ('lines of civilisation'); and international relations (rejoin 'family of nations'). 3/— Diana Jeater (@RoseofAcademe) 10 May 2018
More importantly, though, some things just didn't add up. A call for Big Ideas is not in itself a Big Idea. #Chamisa's only Big Idea seems to be changing the government. There were a lot of technocratic fixes, but most of them are in Zanu-PF's programme as well. 5/— Diana Jeater (@RoseofAcademe) 10 May 2018
Overall, #Chamisa came across as out of his depth, over-excited about the idea of winning an election but failing to recognise the seriousness of what happens after the counting is finished. 18/— Diana Jeater (@RoseofAcademe) 10 May 2018
'...the day when President Chamisa enters Zimbabwe House and begins to reign'.— Diana Jeater (@RoseofAcademe) 10 May 2018
Govern is the word he was looking for. Govern.
I really hope, for Zimbabwe's sake, that he knows the difference. 20/
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